CYNEFIN CHRONICLES
POSTED ON Jan 21, 2023 2:28:57 GMT -5
Post by eden on Jan 21, 2023 2:28:57 GMT -5
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VOL 01 ISSUE 01
GRAND REOPENING!
Welcome to the brand new cynefin
This has been a long time coming! To introduce you to our site under it's Grand Re-Opening, it feels only right to take you back to first opening- the very first opening.
The year was 2010 and a young girl who went by the user Inglis opened a little warriors roleplay on a webs.com called Hazelstar Warriors. As the years went by, several staff came on board including Eden, Feathy and Rochelley. By the time 2016 came around, activity had dwindled and the staff had grown up and their time was spent going to college and starting their careers and thus a year later, they closed the site. But the love they had for their beloved community remained. Mid-2019, Eden brought the team together once more to pitch the idea of a continuation site and thus in early 2020, Cynefin was born. The site ran for half of a year before the impacts of COVID had been felt by all of the community and staff alike, and Cynefin was closed once more. Staff worked behind the scenes for the next few years to bring Cynefin back to life once more.
And now we arrive to today, January 21st 2023, where Cynefin has its Grand Re-Opening! We are so proud and pleased of the finished product. Behind the scenes, the site underwent many aesthetic, function, setting and plot ideas. It has taken years of effort and planning but we are excited to present to you what you see now. On that note, allow us to reintroduce you if you are joining us from Hazelstar Warriors or our first opening, or introducing you for the very first time, to our new site!
Our forest is now much larger in scale with two regions, the City and the Wilds, and within them we have seven parent areas and within them, twenty-seven subareas. Our world is now based similar to that of a videogame with an open-world concept, meaning that your character's destinies are entirely their own ability to make. Characters start in our game either as a Kittypet or as a Loner, and from their whatever they do and whoever they become is entirely up to them through the development of play-by-post threads. We have no pre-established clans right at our opening for this very reason: any character has equal opportunity to create and lead their own clans for their own reasons. Or, they can choose to simply be a healer without Starclan's guidance or join a clan as a Medicine Cat that is guided by Starclan. Or they can choose to have nothing to do with clans and lead their own life traveling around the Wilds.
Speaking of the Wilds, what you see on our map is not the only lands that exist- characters have the ability to "discover" brand new subareas within the map that are not recorded on our first version of the map! The world is literally their oyster, and each character that exists on Cynefin has the opportunity to shift the tides and change the world around them. Bound by no one and to nothing other than their own personal commitments, this allows endless freedom; a change fresh to the world of warriors in which staff has decided would best allow you, our community members, to have any type of character you may want that may make any decisions they choose.
Now, into more specific details about site events!
PLOT
With no clans existing in the Wilds, it is mere rumor that Starclan exists. The cats of Starclan have not walked the skies of the Wilds in as long as any cat alive can remember. There are no signs to show that they care about the lives that live within the Wilds, and the felines of the forest are left on their own. With an entire world unclaimed by clans, many cats within are territorial and take what they can get when they can get it, often fighting over small spaces they occupy and risking both safety, comfort and vacancy upon return when they venture away. Many cats still hold onto the legends and legacies of Starclan and their power to sway the course of their lives, while others cry out that their presence hasn't been felt in eons and that Starclan has abandoned them. Tensions are at the highest they have been in ages, and every stranger is either friend or foe.
ADVERTISING CONTEST
Staff is hosting an Advertising Contest! This contest will take place starting the day of our opening: today! It will last until the last Saturday of February, the 25th, so that Staff can evaluate and announce the winners the following day on Sunday, February 26th. The first place winner will be allowed to fast-pass the clan creation rules in order to establish a clan, perhaps our first, in our game. Our second place winner will be allowed the choice to either immediately have the deputy spot within that very clan, or fast-pass the rules to tribe creation to create a tribe on site. You can view the Advertising Contest thread here!
MAP CREATION
Staff has created a rough draft of our map, and we are humbly requesting that someone in our community take a chance on our map to make it prettier and more detailed than it is now. We are asking for two different creators to try their hand at it, and we are offering two prizes in return! Both maps created will be used as official site maps! The first prize winner will be allowed to create a brand new parent area that doesn't exist on the map thus far, and our second prize winner will be allowed to either create a brand new subarea within that very parent territory or be allowed to create a subarea in another one of our parent areas! Both prize winners will be allowed to fast-pass the area creation rules. You can view the Map Creation thread here!
STAFF APPLICATION
The Head Admins are seeking for new people to join our team! This will not be an immediate approval upon application system, but as we receive applications, we will be reviewing those applicants and gauging their interest, interactions and involvement within the community and on site. When are ready to select a new candidate to at last join our team, we will be using these applications and our evaluations of the applicants to choose who we believe will be the best fit for our team. If you are interested in applying to be a staff member, please fill out this form and we will send you a message to let you know it has been received within 48 hours after applying.
And that's that for now. We hope to bring you these large news posts monthly, as well as our more regular discord announcements. Please feel free to send us a message here or on discord if you have any questions and check out our Guidebook to learn more about the structure of Cynefin! Should you be a returning player from the days of Hazelstar Warriors and wish to retrieve your old characters, simply send the Head Admins a message and let us know, we have a massive storage document recording as many of the characters as we could find and we can help you track down your old ocs!
The year was 2010 and a young girl who went by the user Inglis opened a little warriors roleplay on a webs.com called Hazelstar Warriors. As the years went by, several staff came on board including Eden, Feathy and Rochelley. By the time 2016 came around, activity had dwindled and the staff had grown up and their time was spent going to college and starting their careers and thus a year later, they closed the site. But the love they had for their beloved community remained. Mid-2019, Eden brought the team together once more to pitch the idea of a continuation site and thus in early 2020, Cynefin was born. The site ran for half of a year before the impacts of COVID had been felt by all of the community and staff alike, and Cynefin was closed once more. Staff worked behind the scenes for the next few years to bring Cynefin back to life once more.
And now we arrive to today, January 21st 2023, where Cynefin has its Grand Re-Opening! We are so proud and pleased of the finished product. Behind the scenes, the site underwent many aesthetic, function, setting and plot ideas. It has taken years of effort and planning but we are excited to present to you what you see now. On that note, allow us to reintroduce you if you are joining us from Hazelstar Warriors or our first opening, or introducing you for the very first time, to our new site!
Our forest is now much larger in scale with two regions, the City and the Wilds, and within them we have seven parent areas and within them, twenty-seven subareas. Our world is now based similar to that of a videogame with an open-world concept, meaning that your character's destinies are entirely their own ability to make. Characters start in our game either as a Kittypet or as a Loner, and from their whatever they do and whoever they become is entirely up to them through the development of play-by-post threads. We have no pre-established clans right at our opening for this very reason: any character has equal opportunity to create and lead their own clans for their own reasons. Or, they can choose to simply be a healer without Starclan's guidance or join a clan as a Medicine Cat that is guided by Starclan. Or they can choose to have nothing to do with clans and lead their own life traveling around the Wilds.
Speaking of the Wilds, what you see on our map is not the only lands that exist- characters have the ability to "discover" brand new subareas within the map that are not recorded on our first version of the map! The world is literally their oyster, and each character that exists on Cynefin has the opportunity to shift the tides and change the world around them. Bound by no one and to nothing other than their own personal commitments, this allows endless freedom; a change fresh to the world of warriors in which staff has decided would best allow you, our community members, to have any type of character you may want that may make any decisions they choose.
Now, into more specific details about site events!
PLOT
With no clans existing in the Wilds, it is mere rumor that Starclan exists. The cats of Starclan have not walked the skies of the Wilds in as long as any cat alive can remember. There are no signs to show that they care about the lives that live within the Wilds, and the felines of the forest are left on their own. With an entire world unclaimed by clans, many cats within are territorial and take what they can get when they can get it, often fighting over small spaces they occupy and risking both safety, comfort and vacancy upon return when they venture away. Many cats still hold onto the legends and legacies of Starclan and their power to sway the course of their lives, while others cry out that their presence hasn't been felt in eons and that Starclan has abandoned them. Tensions are at the highest they have been in ages, and every stranger is either friend or foe.
ADVERTISING CONTEST
Staff is hosting an Advertising Contest! This contest will take place starting the day of our opening: today! It will last until the last Saturday of February, the 25th, so that Staff can evaluate and announce the winners the following day on Sunday, February 26th. The first place winner will be allowed to fast-pass the clan creation rules in order to establish a clan, perhaps our first, in our game. Our second place winner will be allowed the choice to either immediately have the deputy spot within that very clan, or fast-pass the rules to tribe creation to create a tribe on site. You can view the Advertising Contest thread here!
MAP CREATION
Staff has created a rough draft of our map, and we are humbly requesting that someone in our community take a chance on our map to make it prettier and more detailed than it is now. We are asking for two different creators to try their hand at it, and we are offering two prizes in return! Both maps created will be used as official site maps! The first prize winner will be allowed to create a brand new parent area that doesn't exist on the map thus far, and our second prize winner will be allowed to either create a brand new subarea within that very parent territory or be allowed to create a subarea in another one of our parent areas! Both prize winners will be allowed to fast-pass the area creation rules. You can view the Map Creation thread here!
STAFF APPLICATION
The Head Admins are seeking for new people to join our team! This will not be an immediate approval upon application system, but as we receive applications, we will be reviewing those applicants and gauging their interest, interactions and involvement within the community and on site. When are ready to select a new candidate to at last join our team, we will be using these applications and our evaluations of the applicants to choose who we believe will be the best fit for our team. If you are interested in applying to be a staff member, please fill out this form and we will send you a message to let you know it has been received within 48 hours after applying.
And that's that for now. We hope to bring you these large news posts monthly, as well as our more regular discord announcements. Please feel free to send us a message here or on discord if you have any questions and check out our Guidebook to learn more about the structure of Cynefin! Should you be a returning player from the days of Hazelstar Warriors and wish to retrieve your old characters, simply send the Head Admins a message and let us know, we have a massive storage document recording as many of the characters as we could find and we can help you track down your old ocs!
Article by EDEN
January 21st, 2023
January 21st, 2023
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